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SOAS Research Online is the institutional repository of SOAS, University of London. Its aim is to provide a permanent record of the research output of the university and maximise the visibility, usage and impact of its research by providing, free access to outputs to any member of the public with an internet. We will strive to make as much of our research available to a global audience including members of the media, policy makers, NGOs and research institutes and researchers who may not otherwise have access to SOAS research.



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The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police (2023)
Book Chapter
Ismail, S. (2023). The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police. In B. Ayata, & C. Harders (Eds.), The Affective Dynamics of Mass Protests Midān Moments and Political Transformation in Egypt and Turkey (121-141). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273882-10

This chapter advances the argument that the people’s rising during the 2011 Egyptian revolutionary uprising was directed at the police as an apparatus of government. In developing this argument, the chapter draws attention to the terms in which the a... Read More about The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police.

Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin (2025)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D., & Wando, A.-H. (in press). Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin. Journal of Borderlands Studies,

This article explores how grassroots Pan-Africanism is lived and practiced in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB), a region where borders function both as instruments of state control and as conduits for transnational connection. Drawing on interviews across N... Read More about Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin.

China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots (2025)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (in press). China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 88,

The Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Lecture given by Shane McCausland on Tuesday 13 February 2024 to the Oriental Ceramics Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
A qualitative, case-based outline study toward a critical framework for understandi... Read More about China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots.